No conflict of opinion in Govt on gay sex order: Khursheed

New Dehi, July 4 (PTI) India's Union Minority Affairs
Minister Salman Khursheed Saturday asserted that there is no
conflict of opinion in the government on the Delhi High Court
order legalising gay sex.

"Ministers concerned have only met and tried to
understand what the judgement has said...As far as I
understand there is no conflict (of opinion) or debate in the
government on this issue," he told reporters here.

His remarks have come a day after three senior
ministers-- Home Minister P Chidambaram, Law Minister M
Veerappa Moily and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad-- met to
take an in-depth view on the court order.

They were mandated by India's Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to decide the Government's stand on the issue at a time
when the High Court judgement had not come.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday legalised homosexual
acts among consenting adults holding that the 149-year-old law
making it a criminal offence is violative of fundamental
rights.

Khursheed said there are many people in the society who
might disagree with the decision but everybody's valid point
of view should be respected.

The department of law has been asked to prepare a note
based on the judgement so that the three ministers could look
at it and decide what needed to be done.

The ministers are expected to submit their report to the
Prime Minister.

Singh, during the first tenure of United Progressive
Alliance (UPA), had asked the ministries of home and health to
resolve the differences over the issue after then Home
Minister Shivraj Patil and Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss
took divergent stand on the issue before the court. PTI BSP
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